The 1995 TV miniseries featured some cutting-edge 3D graphics for the langoliers, pictured as giant balls of spinning razor teeth. Toomey, one of King’s strongest, most developed villains, still gives the same screaming rants, pulls the same delusional stunts Bob Jenkins, a mystery writer, still lectures the the logic of the plot to both other characters and the readers, forcing banal exposition the Dinah, a young blind girl, is still the same prescient and wise pre-teen (whose disability gives her magic powers) as seen in many other Stephen King stories. Most of the dialogue and the pacing seemed unaffected by the translation between mediums. It’s also, despite those faults, remarkably close to the novella. I grew up with the ’90s TV miniseries - awful largely from hammy acting and corny special effects - and loved it despite its faults.

Most of the four novels are wonderful, among my favorite work from Stephen King even under the weight of their own cheesiness and fluff, particularly…ĭespite having never read this before, every beat of the Langoliers was familiar and comfortable. They include the Langoliers, a light-hearted adventure romp that revels in its own ridiculousness Secret Window, Secret Garden, the closing of a thematic trilogy King wrote about the power of storytelling the Library Policeman, in which a man is haunted by his childhood fears, traumas, and a monster feeding on the emotional turmoil of children and the Sun Dog, a lead-in to Castle Rock’s final moments in Needful Things, and in which a demonic monster works its way across dimensions through a Polaroid camera. Four Past Midnight is a wonderful collection of four ‘short’ novels Stephen King wrote in the late ’80s.

Four past midnight review